Delay Goons Assault Grandmother

No lie. Check it out. Juanita has the best coverage of the whole Fascist melt-down: www.brazosriver.com Kos has it too: www.dailykos.com

Incidentally, when I checked the election code the other day, it seemed fairly unambiguous about whether or not they can pick a new candidate for November:

(b) An executive committee may make a replacement nomination following a withdrawal only if:
(1) the candidate:
(A) withdraws because of a catastrophic illness that was diagnosed after the 62nd day before general primary election day and the illness would permanently and continuously incapacitate the candidate and prevent the candidate from performing the duties of the office sought; and (B) files with the withdrawal request a certificate describing the illness and signed by at least two licensed physicians; (2) no political party that held primary elections has
a nominee for the office sought by the withdrawing candidate as of the time of the withdrawal; or (3) the candidate has been elected or appointed to fill a vacancy in another elective office or has become the nominee for another office.


She has it right when she observes:

"April 5 - There’s one thing I know sure as a Grandmother’s love: the Republicans are violating the law by putting a candidate up to fill DeLay’s spot in the November election. They can spin this until all their psychedelic colors blend into a purple haze, but Texas law does not allow you to replace a candidate because he sees that he’s going to lose.

They are violating the law and making a mockery of the electoral process. What scares me is that they’ve had so much practice that they are getting darned good at it.

Let me give you an idea of how truly wicked and arrogant their youngsters have become. Another local blogger pointed me to a perfectly serious statement a couple of local young Republican bloggers think is a dandy idea. I'm quoting directly from their blogs.

If there is any ambiguity over whether the GOP can replace DeLay on the ballot in November, won't the state legislature simply rewrite/clarify the election code in the upcoming special session in a few weeks?

It's pretty likely that this will be litigated, and equally likely that the GOP will be allowed to replace DeLay on the ballot. So perhaps the legislature will attempt to change the code.

So, if they law isn't in your favor, change the law? This is the arrogance and win-at-all-costs morality that they teach their children. Even aside from that, isn't having the State Lege act like a bunch of Republican bullies what got us into this mess in the first place?

Meanwhile, the Republican Party Chairman in Fort Bend County does not want a special election because he’s afraid that Democrat Nick Lampson will win it. Instead of letting the voters decide who will be the GOP nominee, he wants to decide it behind closed doors with some other fluffy white boy friends of his.

The intellectual dishonesty of local Republicans is what made me a straight ticket Democrat this year."

Land Negotions! Why would Tom Delays campaign manager believe this kind of brown-shirted thuggery would garner any good vibes from the voters? On the day that Gonzales testified that they had absolute constitutional authority for unwarranted domestic wire taps, and Pat Fitzgerald revealled that Bush ordered the outing of Valerie Plame, (e.g. treason) doesn't it seem that dark forces are mustering to over-throw our very way of existence? How can good people be so blind?